A small sampling of terrorist events in the years before 9/11: famous photo of Palestinian terrorist during the attack at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
Iranian Hostage Affair begins on November 4, 1979 when radical Islamic students took 60 Americans hostage and held most of them for 444 days. They were released on January 21, 1981.
299 US Marines and French Paratroopers Killed in Beirut, Lebanon by suicide bombers of the "Islamic Jihad" October, 23 1983.
The cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked on October 7,1985 by Palestinian terrorist and a Jewish American Leon Klinghoffer was murdered.
Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorist on December 21, 1988 killing 259 people on board and another 11 on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland.
February 26, 1993 a truck packed with 1200 pounds of explosive is left by Islamic terrorist and blows up in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center killing 6 and wounding 1000 and leaving a 100 by 200 foot crater in the ground.
USS Cole is attacked on October 12, 2000 by suicide bombers in Yemen.
"Let's Roll"
A small sampling of terrorist events in the years before 9/11:- Iranian Hostage Affair begins on November 4, 1979 when radical Islamic students took 60 Americans hostage and held most of them for 444 days. They were released on January 21, 1981.
- 299 US Marines and French Paratroopers Killed in Beirut, Lebanon by suicide bombers of the "Islamic Jihad" October, 23 1983.
- The cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked on October 7,1985 by Palestinian terrorist and a Jewish American Leon Klinghoffer was murdered.
- Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorist on December 21, 1988 killing 259 people on board and another 11 on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland.
- February 26, 1993 a truck packed with 1200 pounds of explosive is left by Islamic terrorist and blows up in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center killing 6 and wounding 1000 and leaving a 100 by 200 foot crater in the ground.
- USS Cole is attacked on October 12, 2000 by suicide bombers in Yemen.
"Falling Man"Incredible story:DNA tied to note
The Red Bandanna
Key Events on 911 via news clips from around the world
9/11 What more can be said?
http://911digitalarchive.org/REPOSITORY/MISC_COLLECTIONS/america_attacked/ATTACK.SWF
9/11 Tribute Video
President Bush's famous "Bullhorn speech"
Flight 93 Tribute
Flight 93 Memorial
Something else cool to remember about the World Trade Towers.
"Petit Philippe" in 1974